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Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood.

"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
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Hello,

I once installed this Logitech Driver which manifests itself as
SetPoint.exe in Task Manager.

I installed it to be able to turn off the side buttons which could be
accidently pressed when browsing weg pages which causes annoying tab
switches.

The driver installation was called: setpoint6.61.15_smart.exe

Anyway I noticed how this SetPoint.exe fluctuated while playing the game
Wolfenstein: The New Blood.

Sometimes SetPoint.exe would take 50% cpu.

Even if it only takes 0% CPU it seems to somehow interfere with the
loading of this game... and also the playing of this game.

Symptoms a

1. Major slowdown of the loading of the game levels.

2. Major stutter during video playback.

3. Major stutter while playing the game.

By simply terminating/end the process for SetPoint.exe

The game becomes very well playable, even on GT 520, 64 bit memory bus.

Other tips to speed up the game a

Set Virtual Texture Cache Size to low.

(Possibly enable compression and cuda acceleration, not sure about this
last one).

Also turn down lodbias to low.

Also turn everything else too low as well.

The cache size must be turned to low manually/custom settings via
advanced.

Just choosing "general low settings" doesn't do it... so make sure it says
custom.

At the top or bottom of settings is an "apply" option.

Click it to save it... so scroll up or down to find the apply button.

The game itself is a "context switch" resource hog, it can spawn threads
between 61 to 64 threads.

I think somehow the SetPoint.exe software might be temporarely dead
locking it or cause other lock contention...

Bye,
Skybuck.
The latest version of SetPoint is 6.65.62. You might try updating to it to
see if it's less intrusive.

Are you using the mouse as a controller in the game? If not, uncheck Enabled
in SetPoint under My Mouse Game Settings Game Detection. There are a few
other settings there that might help also. I don't have that game, so I
can't test it out for you. (How is the game? Decent gameplay?)
--
SC Tom